Books Calendar

Updated 2:42 pm, Friday, April 21, 2017

David Ellingson, First Lutheran Church, 181 Western Ave., Albany. 11 a.m. Free. 463-1326. A talk by the author of "Paddle Pilgrim: Kayaking the Erie Canal and Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty."

Ghabriela Donnelly, Caffe Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs. 2 p.m. Free. 583-0022 or http://www.caffelena.org. A book launch for "Escaping the Lion and the Leopard," Ellie Porte Parker's book about Donnelly, an immigrant from Eritrea who now lives in East Greenbush.

"Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Cosmic Perspective," Proctors, 432 State St., Schenectady. 7:30 p.m. Monday. $20-$250. 346-6204 or http://www.proctors.org. Tyson — the director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" and author of 14 books, including the upcoming "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" — presents his latest far-ranging stage show.

TUESDAY

Friends of the APL Book Review, Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Ave., Albany. Noon. Free. 427-4300 or http://www.albanypubliclibrary.org. "Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall" by Nina Willner is reviewed by Evelyn Dufur.

"Alone in the Remote Place: The Pioneering Women Biologists of New York's Raptor Recovery Programs," Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. 6 p.m. Free. 463-4478 or http://www.albanyinstitute.org. A lecture by Darryl McGrath, the author of "Flight Paths: A Field Journal of Hope, Heartbreak, and Miracles with New York's Bird People."

American Perspectives Book Discussion, Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave., Guilderland. 7 p.m. Free. 456-2400 or http://www.guilpl.org. Discussing "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.